🎉 Fun Fact! Remember, we're diving into how to design a cool psychology experiment for your internal assessment. Exciting, isn't it? 🎈

• Can be from any psychology area.
• Must be from a peer-reviewed journal (imagine this like a special magazine where super-smart people say, "Yep, this study is solid!").

• An experiment is like a recipe. You change ONE ingredient (IV) to see what happens to the dish (DV)!
  • Independent Variable (IV): The ingredient you change.
  • Dependent Variable (DV): What you're measuring. The outcome!
• Don'ts
  • No quasi-experiments. These are where the IV isn't controlled by you but happens naturally. Examples include:
    • Age (you can't make someone older or younger for a day, right? 🧓👶)
    • Native language, gender, culture, etc.
  • You can't experiment with:
    • Placebos (like a fake pill)
    • Anything ingested or inhaled (no snacks allowed!)
    • Deprivation (keeping people from food or sleep, etc.)
• Dos
  • Use only ONE IV and ONE DV.
  • The IV should have at least two conditions or levels. Think of this as two variations of that ingredient you're changing.
  • Pro tip: Stick to only two levels of the IV for an easier time analyzing your data!